Hyper Converged Infrastructure · • Expanded network interface cards • Expanded CPU choices Enhanced enterprise deployment • Flexible object renaming for data center deployments

Hyper Converged

InfrastructureThe new standard for all datacenter

workloads

Maciej PlonaDell [email protected]

© Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.2

Storage

+

Systems design shift

Servers

Then Now

Software

defined storage

Moore’s Law

Virtualization

High speed

Ethernet

Flash media


Hyper-converged

Systems design shift – Hyper-converged

Now

SAN

Servers

Storage

Then


HCI changes economicsC

apex

Traditional SAN Hyper-Converged

Initia

l $

Add servers

and disks

Initia

l $

Scale incrementally

Add nodes


2017: HCI goes primetime

>60% customers to adopt HCI by 20171

75% deployments in core data center1

HCI market $1.5B to $6B by 20202

Customers are already

modernizing with HCI

Main drivers: simplify operations, start

small and scale efficiently, lower TCO

Standardized building blocks to help

accelerate your on-premises cloud

Why are they

embracing HCI?

Dell EMC has fastest-growing HCI portfolio: VxRail, VxRack, XC series

1. 451 Research, December 20162. Gartner Group, October 2016

ScalabilitySimplicityAgility Modernize


What is inside VxRail?

A full suite of capabilities included at no additional charge

• VxRail Manager

• Secure Remote Support

Deployment and

support tools

• vSAN Enterprise

• vCenter Server

• vRealize Log Insight

• vSphere Ready*

Powered by

VMware vSAN

• RecoverPoint for VMs

• CloudArray

• vSphere Replication

• vSphere Data Protection

Included data

protection options

*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses


VxRail downloadable or auto upgrades

Fully automated and validated upgrade process for maintenance and major releases

* Upgrades for customers running vSphere Standard Edition or 3-nodes require services support to perform the upgrade

• Upgrade post-checks

• Pre/post upgrade hooks

• Execute the automated,

non-disruptive, rolling

node upgrade

• vMotion and

maintenance mode

ensure VMs remain

available and adhere to

fault tolerance setting

• Offline bundle upload

• Profile pre-checks

• Upgrade pre-checks

• VM protection pre-checks

• Alarm pre-checks

• ESXi/CloudVM state

pre-checker

• From VxRail Manager

• Includes all software

ready to update

as needed

• VxRail Manager

• VCSA and PSC

• vSphere and vSAN

• Firmware

Validation

post-checks

Update the

software

Readiness

check

Download

VxRail software



VxRail 4.0 overview

2Xmore flash storage

250Xmore configurations

40%more CPU performance

25%less expensiveentry point

Compared to previous generation appliances

• Dell PowerEdge servers

• Intel Broadwell processors

• Addresses more use cases—storage-heavy,

graphics intensive, and ROBO

• 3-node entry point

• One-click software upgrades

What’s in VxRail 4.0


Here’s what you told us

More connectivityCost optimize

$

More GPU optionsEnterprise fit


Greater VDI density

NVIDIA Tesla M10 for increased VDI density for

“office workers”

M60 also available for 2D/3D

Enterprise serviceability

VxRail Manager upgrades, more NICS

for VM traffic

Slash your licensing tax

New single socket hybrid appliances to lower license costs

New since the 4.0 launch


Dell EMC VDI Complete Solution – Powered by Horizon

Superior end-to-

end VDI solution

Simplified sales

& support model

Exceptional total

cost of ownership

Start small and

pay as you grow

Flexible

Consumption Model

Cost per seat for as

low as

$8 per seat per

month**

ONE place to pay

ONE hand to shake

ONE stop support


Looking ahead: new VxRail capabilities

All Q2 capabilities PLUS:

vCenter 6.5• Photon OS-based vCSA

vSAN 6.6• iSCSI targets (new in vSAN 6.5)

• Data at rest encryption

• Enhanced stretched clusters with local protection

• Site affinity for stretched clusters

• Improved all-flash performance with dedupe & compression

• More efficient rebuilds

Enterprise scalability• vAPI and PowerCLI support for lifecycle management

Platform• Expanded network interface cards

• Expanded CPU choices

Enhanced enterprise deployment• Flexible object renaming for data center deployments

• Guided upgrade for vSphere Standard Edition customers

• Improved first run status reporting

• Migrations from internal to external vCenters

• External ESRS gateway support

• Expanded iDRAC support

Q3 2017: vSphere 6.5 code base

VxRail 4.5

Q2 2017: vSphere 6.0 code base

VxRail 4.0


Stretched clusters with local protection

3rd site witness

5ms RTT, 10GbE

vSAN

100Mbps200ms RTTL3

RAID-6 RAID-6

RAID-1

• RAID 1 of RAID1/5/6 for all-flash

• RAID 1 of RAID 1 for hybrid


Site affinity forstretched clusters

witness

5ms RTT, 10GbE

vSAN

100Mbps200ms RTTL3

EC 3+1(RAID5)

FTT=1(RAID1)

• Protect only critical workloads

• Keep non-critical data in one site

– e.g. for dev. QA, staging, etc.


Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE)

• Configured for entire cluster

• Works with both all-flash and hybrid

• Works with dedupe and compression

• Compliance with FIPS 140-2 Level 1,

AES 256

• Key management using KMIP-

compliant KMS vendors

vSphere + vSAN

vSAN Datastore

SSD SSD SSD

…



Continuously modernize

10GbE

VM

Add new appliance to cluster

vMotion workload to new appliance

Remove old node

Non-disruptively


VxRail – where to position?

• IT consolidation

• Application islands:

VDI

ROBO

DMZ, mgmt, security

Test/Dev

• DRC

Compute + Storage

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Hyper Converged Infrastructure · • Expanded network interface cards • Expanded CPU choices Enhanced enterprise deployment • Flexible object renaming for data center deployments